Yeah and our pitchforks also go to the early companies and adoptors of SSDs, LCD displays, washing machines, and more! If only they hadn't produced for them for the rich, then we wouldn't have.... er... also.. been able to affor.... oh wait.
Is there an online/crypto currency you actually think would be genuinely useful to the world - which hasn't taken off yet?
Like Tesla Motors, I'd like to invest in something which benefits us all, and Bitcoin, while potentially promising, may be technically/practically inferior to another startup currency.
Perhaps what you're forgetting is that these companies could have been risking their own necks if they were the only company to take a stand (if say, Google first took a stance, there's no guarantee the others would follow). Snowden has managed to fan the flames for the public, and so a company's 'weigh-in' would therefore be much more effective now anyway, let alone all the companies joining forces and weighing in which is what is happening.
Also, none of the tech companies probably knew the full extent of the surveillance.
Well said. When I write the history and bug fixes for my OpalCalc program, I make sure to put the most important changes at the top of each release, and sometimes in bold/yellow to emphasize how big the change is.
I wish programs like Irfanview would do this (still waiting for full 32 bit PNG support on that one).
There was a recent (approx 6-20 month old?) breakthrough (reported on Slashdot) in understanding superconductor behaviour. Do you think this new discovery has sourced information, ideas or data from that old breakthrough?
If you're not sure what I'm referring to, I'll try and find the story.
I meant even in principle, battery is better than any other power source. It has to be. The only statistic it currently falls short on is capacity, but imagine a battery that stores 10x as much energy as today's batteries. That's almost inevitable, and by itself makes it much better than any other option. Now imagine 100x more capacity. You get the idea...
If we look to the car of the future, it's surely going to be battery. And I don't just mean 10 years from now. I'm thinking 100 years, even 1000, heck even 10,000 years from now.
We're seeing around 8% improvements in battery capacity year upon year. Everything is going solid-state for reasons down to reliability, size, capacity, latency, noise, efficiency, (and eventually) cost to produce. You just can't beat raw instantaneous electricity as a power source.
But that's like saying you'd be in deep shit if someone burgled your house without you having had property insurance, or someone died without life insurance.
It's still bad to have the insurance forced upon you.
What do people here think about getting rid of forced car insurance?
I get that it would suck if you were in a collision that wasn't your fault, but I believe it'd be better for everyone on the whole if we ditched something which mostly benefits the insurance companies in the end.
Both types of counting are useful in various circumstances. As a piano teacher, it always bugs me how counting time starts at one (1,2,3,4, 1,2,3,4 etc.). No matter what your opinion for starting with zero or one in a programming context, it is insane to start from one when counting time, but tradition has the final word unfortunately.
Placing down apples on a table, or referring to an element in an array is more arguable, but perhaps the most 'accurate' (though not the most practical) method is to count in pairs: 0..1, 1..2, 2..3 etc. This way you're referring to an apple which isn't a single point in mathematical space, but rather a RANGE of points from 0 to 1. This way half an apple makes sense too.
With smaller pieces, you have more surface area to burn up as they go through the atmosphere. This gets better the more, smaller pieces there are. Not sure how powerful the explosive would have to be to break a sizable asteroid (say 1km diameter) though.
2) Subjective. The Model S is a beauty, and the Volt is not.
You just said that as though it was an objective statement. Other than that, I agree with you, I do prefer the look of the Model S. I ALSO think it's objectively nicer, but that would be incredibly hard to prove with the current state of research into aesthetics. Maybe give it a millennium;)
Smart in one way sure. But they're blind when it comes to preserving what they hope or want to be true. That's when emotion takes over. Even so-called intelligent people are susceptible to that, especially as we evolved with what appears to be some kind of spiritual/'god' complex in the brain (sadly).
Tactile feedback sounds like a decent idea. But I wish they'd work on the latency first. You get a much better 'physical' connection with the device when the latency is less than 50 or even 5 milliseconds.
The latest iPhone adds all sorts of scrolling gimmicks, and that'll unfortunately also have the effect of increased latency.
If you want really twisted. How about that sea creature (Cymothoa Exigua) who starts by eating the tongue of a fish, then actually BECOMES the tongue for the rest of the fish's life.
Assume possibility 2, but where space travel is limited (economically) in the short term. We have a situation where nobody works, everyone has food, but there's still a limited resource - space on the planet. One may scrap money, but replace that with 'credits' where the more creative, intelligent, sporty, attractive, sociable, 'fun' interesting people thrive more than the rest?
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Yeah and our pitchforks also go to the early companies and adoptors of SSDs, LCD displays, washing machines, and more! If only they hadn't produced for them for the rich, then we wouldn't have.... er... also.. been able to affor.... oh wait.
The Model S starts out at around $64000, not $90 grand for a kick off.
The stock price went down a little actually today so far.
They're likely unveiling the Model E, perhaps half the price, at the Detroit Auto Show in Jan 2015.
Is there an online/crypto currency you actually think would be genuinely useful to the world - which hasn't taken off yet?
Like Tesla Motors, I'd like to invest in something which benefits us all, and Bitcoin, while potentially promising, may be technically/practically inferior to another startup currency.
Perhaps what you're forgetting is that these companies could have been risking their own necks if they were the only company to take a stand (if say, Google first took a stance, there's no guarantee the others would follow). Snowden has managed to fan the flames for the public, and so a company's 'weigh-in' would therefore be much more effective now anyway, let alone all the companies joining forces and weighing in which is what is happening.
Also, none of the tech companies probably knew the full extent of the surveillance.
Well said. When I write the history and bug fixes for my OpalCalc program, I make sure to put the most important changes at the top of each release, and sometimes in bold/yellow to emphasize how big the change is.
I wish programs like Irfanview would do this (still waiting for full 32 bit PNG support on that one).
A small proportion of such stories do see the light though. Think back to the 'unusual' light from that OLED tech first produced as one example.
There was a recent (approx 6-20 month old?) breakthrough (reported on Slashdot) in understanding superconductor behaviour. Do you think this new discovery has sourced information, ideas or data from that old breakthrough?
If you're not sure what I'm referring to, I'll try and find the story.
I meant even in principle, battery is better than any other power source. It has to be. The only statistic it currently falls short on is capacity, but imagine a battery that stores 10x as much energy as today's batteries. That's almost inevitable, and by itself makes it much better than any other option. Now imagine 100x more capacity. You get the idea...
If we look to the car of the future, it's surely going to be battery. And I don't just mean 10 years from now. I'm thinking 100 years, even 1000, heck even 10,000 years from now.
We're seeing around 8% improvements in battery capacity year upon year. Everything is going solid-state for reasons down to reliability, size, capacity, latency, noise, efficiency, (and eventually) cost to produce. You just can't beat raw instantaneous electricity as a power source.
Which is the most reliable exchange in your opinion then?
But that's like saying you'd be in deep shit if someone burgled your house without you having had property insurance, or someone died without life insurance.
It's still bad to have the insurance forced upon you.
What do people here think about getting rid of forced car insurance?
I get that it would suck if you were in a collision that wasn't your fault, but I believe it'd be better for everyone on the whole if we ditched something which mostly benefits the insurance companies in the end.
Both types of counting are useful in various circumstances. As a piano teacher, it always bugs me how counting time starts at one (1,2,3,4, 1,2,3,4 etc.). No matter what your opinion for starting with zero or one in a programming context, it is insane to start from one when counting time, but tradition has the final word unfortunately.
Placing down apples on a table, or referring to an element in an array is more arguable, but perhaps the most 'accurate' (though not the most practical) method is to count in pairs: 0..1, 1..2, 2..3 etc. This way you're referring to an apple which isn't a single point in mathematical space, but rather a RANGE of points from 0 to 1. This way half an apple makes sense too.
Are you sure? Oh that's interesting.
With smaller pieces, you have more surface area to burn up as they go through the atmosphere. This gets better the more, smaller pieces there are. Not sure how powerful the explosive would have to be to break a sizable asteroid (say 1km diameter) though.
For searching you should be using Locate32 which is light years ahead of the search on Windows.
2) Subjective. The Model S is a beauty, and the Volt is not.
You just said that as though it was an objective statement. Other than that, I agree with you, I do prefer the look of the Model S. I ALSO think it's objectively nicer, but that would be incredibly hard to prove with the current state of research into aesthetics. Maybe give it a millennium ;)
Regarding the look, the nose of the Cadillac looks like it's chopped off to make a 'snout' - not great, though the rest looks quite good I guess.
Smart in one way sure. But they're blind when it comes to preserving what they hope or want to be true. That's when emotion takes over. Even so-called intelligent people are susceptible to that, especially as we evolved with what appears to be some kind of spiritual/'god' complex in the brain (sadly).
Tactile feedback sounds like a decent idea. But I wish they'd work on the latency first. You get a much better 'physical' connection with the device when the latency is less than 50 or even 5 milliseconds.
The latest iPhone adds all sorts of scrolling gimmicks, and that'll unfortunately also have the effect of increased latency.
It's worth posting Microsoft's research on this again: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOvQCPLkPt4
If you want really twisted. How about that sea creature (Cymothoa Exigua) who starts by eating the tongue of a fish, then actually BECOMES the tongue for the rest of the fish's life.
See number 6:
http://www.cracked.com/article_17199_the-7-most-horrifying-parasites-planet.html
Oh you mean two passwords instead of one? A username is effectively part of the password.
Assume possibility 2, but where space travel is limited (economically) in the short term. We have a situation where nobody works, everyone has food, but there's still a limited resource - space on the planet. One may scrap money, but replace that with 'credits' where the more creative, intelligent, sporty, attractive, sociable, 'fun' interesting people thrive more than the rest?